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burning the portrait
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history

i think i'm gonna calm down for a little bit
i've had these same things on my mind for quite some time
will the bombs come?
and will they find me when they do?
somewhere in egypt there's a princess
she looks just like you

and every now and the my forefathers they wake up inside of me somewhere
they ask me questions like i'm the one who was supposed to know
so if you're wondering what i muttered that night in my sleep
i can't remember but chances are it was just another little piece of history

the rain on the window
it starts to whisper in tongues
across the room i see a fire burning from your head
i've got an answer
an angel came to me and said...
o god i can't remember
so i smile at you and go back to bed

take me out tonight
the dead street of the dirty town
the bartender looks once and then puts his head down
i'm so sorry about last night when i smashed my drink
please forgive me
i didn't mean it
it was just another little piece of history

the sun is coming up
i guess it's time to say goodnight
but thanks for the wine and thanks for having me
you people have certainly been all right

and listen close
someday for the kindness of tolerating me i'm going to write a beautiful song for you
about another little piece of history

 

what i know now

and i want to come back down the right way
my head the right way up
i'm sorry about the time that's come between us
but my soul's been losing love
i haven't really been anything but wired
so you haven't missed too much
and the whole rest of me is tired of fucking things all up

i took a bus down into the city
because i thought i'd find my head
when i finally did i walked around it
and came back home instead
then i met a girl
we called her cocaine
because she always kept me up
i woke up one sunday and she was gone
and so was all my stuff

i just came back to thank you
for the kindness that you showed me
when i needed it most
in my darkest of hours
so thank you
for the lessons that you gave me
if i only knew then what i know now

i shouldn't have called so uninvited
now i can't seem to shut my mouth
call me up sometime tomorrow and we'll work something out
i know these days you must be busy with a life moving right along
i guess i'll take myself back to the city
and see where i went wrong

don't mind me
i just burned a portrait and the fire's still on my mind
let me step out for just a minute
i just need some time
i just want to be back in your front seat
we could drive around this small town
remember we were kids
that was all we did
with the radio up and the windows down

i just came back to thank you
for the kindness that you showed me
when i needed it most
in my darkest of hours
so thank you
for the lessons that you gave me
if i only knew then what i know now

so take care
i'll see you later
and no, i can't say when
who knows
maybe things would be different if i knew now what i knew then

 

ani difranco wants me download the demo

ani difranco wants me
and her want, it keeps her very busy
she doesn't even have time to write me letters
and the ones i send come back to me
but she backed me up on my last album
and not for credit but for my love
she's in the background singing
i swear it
if you can't hear her then turn it up

i met her backstage at her concert
i said "you're such a righteous babe to me..."
it was such a forrest gump moment
but i never got any royalties
and she's got this sense of humor
once she even called the police
something about a boy outside her window
but then she smiled when she saw that it was me

she said, "we're on our own, can you picture it?
you and me baby and we're driving down the highway
we can't be wrong if you think of it
we illustrate the soundtrack and we're driving down the highway..."

you know she's got me on her speed dial
she calls when she's hung up on a chord
and it's another industry inside secret that i write most her words
and we always go for coffee
up to denny's or to a small cafe
and we have the greatest conversations
most of our songs get written that way

ok, so i never really met her
but there was this one time that i almost did
she stayed on her side of the courtroom
and said "can't you lock up this fucking kid?"
so they granted the restraining order
but i think in this case the system's wrong
o ani can't you see i love you?
i just wanted you to hear my new song

it goes, we're on our own, can you picture it?
you and me baby and we're driving down the highway
we can't be wrong if you think of it
we illustrate the soundtrack and we're driving down the highway

i never asked to be different
she'll never know the way i feel unless i hit the highway
so i drove all night through a misty rain
and suddenly i catch a glimpse
ani as she takes the stage

her first song is a prince cover and i just love how she breaks it down into "untouchable face"
she breaks a string before the third song
and the crowd just waits
but when she starts the show again
this is what she'll say:

"we're on our own, can you picture it?
you an me jay and we're driving down the highway
we might be wrong
but just think of it
we'll rewrite the whole soundtrack
and we're driving down the highway
we're on our own, can you picture it?
you an me jay and we're driving down the highway
we're not so wrong if you think of it
we'll rewrite the whole soundtrack as we get another state away"

 

sex & the city

the first time i fell in love she spelled my name in dandelions
and then there was the first kiss
well i wasn't hers
but she was mine

the next time i fell in love
she was earth and she was fire
i can't remember ever being that young
but i remember how young smiled
like you smile

and i love the way that you sip your tea
as you speak of poetry and antiques
and i don't know how i should be when it all comes down to sex and the city

the third time i fell in love
i could swear that it was right
it was all sorts of nothing like hurt
and we fought some good fights

then the last time i fell in love
i surprised myself with pain
i was drunk
it was 3 a.m.
and i swore i wouldn't fall again
and i fell

and i love the way that you sip your tea
as you speak of poetry and antiques
and i don't know how i should be when it all comes down to sex and the city

the next time i fall in love
i think i'll know just what to do: make sure that it's with you

and i love the way that you sip your tea
as you speak of poetry and antiques
and i don't know how i should be

sometimes it just comes down to sex and the city
it all comes down to sex

 

midday child

midday at the corner of my own space crumbling
with mouth stream sweat of years gone by
and tears fell soft
and smiles glossed

we were gonna be a thousand things
we were living out a thousand dreams
through one way to live
and one way to die
which way was it you went then?
i haven't seen it in so long

in so long
so long
in so long
so so long

and i let it touch my face again
trickle down
it was nice my friend
someday we'll be young again
i guess it all comes back in the end

 

every day is a saturday

i'd like to thank you for the time you almost saved my life
i know you don't remember it but it was years ago
and it still plays on my mind
and no, i never even told you why
and i live with that crime
you don't have the time
but you make the time

and the drinks we made
they help the night just slip away
and i've got what it takes to stay awake
and the things we say never mean much anyway
and every day is a saturday

another night that rolls its eyes
as it blows a kiss goodbye
a suckerpunch daylight creeping through the cracked blinds

but we are young and made of fire
and we're not afraid to fight
just ask those kids from the other night

and the drinks we made
they help the night just slip away
and i've got what it takes to stay awake
and the things we say never mean much anyway
and every day is a saturday

i've often wondered what it's like
to be fit and clear and right
but then you catch my eye
and we both smile

and the drinks we made
they help the night just slip away
and i've got what it takes to stay awake
and the things we say never mean much anyway
and every day is a saturday

and the ones that left us behind
they live on in our minds
save us seats and drinks on the other side

and the ones that left us behind
they live on in our minds
save us seats and drinks on the other side
goodbye

and the drinks we made
they help the night just slip away
and i've got what it takes to stay awake
and the things we say never mean much anyway
and every day is a saturday
every day...
 

answer well

i'm hung over
and i want to die
reaching out for all the wrong lies

and someone once said that the devil's in the details
but the devil's right here

ask me anything
i know i'll answer well

there's a girl drowning somewhere six states away
and there's nothing i could ever do or be to ever make that change

so let me be
and fall asleep
i'll wake up hard and still weak

daddy always said to run away
god, of all the things to remember him say...

 

pouring rain

do you know what i'm feeling inside?
i wish that i could show you what it's like to be me
for a change i could change
and when i saw you that night
you told me things were all right
but it was something in your eyes that told me

i won't be around to catch you when you fall down
there will be no song that plays when you walk through the pouring rain
and i'd wait suffering
a romeo of simple things
the moonlight and the pouring rain a backdrop for you walking away

and i know that we got so tight
and i know my feelings were right
and don't understand how it changed but it changed
and i've been acting so strange
been staring off into space
but don't go walking away

i'm reaching for you...

wait
i'll be around
i'll catch you when you fall down
i will sing the song that plays when you walk through the pouring rain
wait
i'll be around
i'll catch you when you fall down
i will sing the song that plays when you walk through the pouring rain

show me your soul
and be my world
you're what i hold and i want more
show me your soul
and be my world
you're what i hold and i want more

wait
i'll be around
i'll catch you when you fall down
i will sing the song that plays when you walk through the pouring rain
wait
i'll be around
i'll catch you when you fall down
i will sing the song that plays when you walk through the pouring rain

lost at me

...and i like the way it feels when you talk to me
i did too much cocaine and now i'll never sleep
and if i wait the whole night
i still won't get it right
just please don't leave

i'd be like my father but there's no such thing
and i like the way you're looking
but you're glancing nervously
and if i wait the whole night
i still won't get it right
just please don't leave

and you feel like a breeze
at least you do to me
and ask me what i'd do you for
and i'll tell you, "anything..."

and if i wait the whole night
i still won't get it right
i lost at me

i lost at me